Derrida's Politics of Friendship : : Amity and Enmity / / ed. by Luke Collison, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, Georgios Tsagdis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Alfandary, Isabelle,; Anderson, Nicole,; Barton, Kit,; Cheah, Pheng,; Cohen, Joseph,; Collison, Luke,; Fathaigh, Cillian Ó,; Kamuf, Peggy,; Kelz, Rosine,; Lindberg, Susanna,; Lloyd, Chris,; Menegalle, Giovanni,; Mercier, Thomas Clément,; Michaelsen, Cathrine Bjørnholt,; Parsons, Allan,; Rae, Gavin,; Rushworth, Jennifer,; Secret, Timothy,; Senatore, Mauro,; Tsagdis, Georgios,; Uljée, Rozemund,; Ventura, David,; Waltham-Smith, Naomi,; Zagury-Orly, Raphael,
• HerausgeberIn: Collison, Luke,; Tsagdis, Georgios,; Ó Fathaigh, Cillian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

Critically engages with Jacques Derrida’s Politics of Friendship and with the limits of friendship as a political conceptReconsiders the importance of this relatively understudied key text in Derrida’s oeuvre Includes two contributions on Geschlect IV, ‘Heidegger’s Ear: Philopolemology’, published in the French edition but excluded from the English translationResonates with issues in contemporary politics such as nationalist and anti-nationalist political programmesOffers an interdisciplinary perspective from philosophy, comparative literature and French studies Brings together early career, established and emeritus scholars including Peggy Kamuf, Isabelle Alfandary, Timothy Secret and Pheng Cheah25 years after the publication of Derrida’s Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l’amitié, 1994), this edited collection gathers 23 critical chapters that revisit this underappreciated text. Engaging closely with Derrida’s text, the contributors analyse, extend and critique the work. They reconsider the place this book occupies in Derrida’s political philosophy and its potential for contemporary politics, when the promises and perils of political friendship have reappeared.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Welcome Friends: Reading Derrida’s Politics of Friendship -- Part I Responses -- 1 Who or What: Differential Friendship -- 2 Derrida, Montaigne and the Time of Friendship -- 3 Is There a Politics to Friendship? Derrida’s Critique of the Couple in Montaigne, Kant and Levinas -- 4 Beyond Presence: Derrida’s Fidelity to Husserl in Politics of Friendship -- 5 Hostility in Philosophy – Between Hegel and Heidegger -- 6 Responding Justly to ‘the Friend’ -- 7 Another Friendship -- Part II Echoes -- 8 The Time of Friendship: Mourning, Survival, Spectrality -- 9 Friendship and Fission: Personal Identity in Derrida and Parfit -- 10 Two Structures of Friendship: On the Specular and the Spectral -- 11 Dividing the Ear -- 12 Narcissus as an Anti-Narcissus -- 13 The Apparition of Feminine Alterity in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship -- 14 The Possible Echo -- Part III Polemics -- 15 Political Friendships to Come? Futurity, Democracy and Citizenship -- 16 The Rhythm of Democracy, the Pulse of Deconstruction -- 17 Derrida, Democracy and the State of Education: Learning, by Design, Perchance -- 18 The Law of Autoimmunity -- 19 The Other That Accompanies Me -- 20 Companionship, Kinship, Friendship, Readership – and ‘the Possibility of Failure’ -- 21 Interruption and Responsibility: Derrida’s Passive Decision -- 22 The Phantasmatic Fiction: Derrida on the Ground of Politics -- 23 Modal Aporias: Derrida on the reale Möglichkeit of Friends and Enemies in Schmitt -- Index